Senior Director, Commercialization Technology Architect
Vertex Pharmaceuticals2 hours ago
Boston, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$228k - $342k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain target-state architecture, reference architectures, design patterns, and engineering standards for AI-enabled Commercial and Medical systems.
- Govern architecture alignment across CRM, omnichannel, patient services, and enterprise platforms.
- Design integration patterns, real-time and batch data flows, event-driven architectures, and APIs across Salesforce, Veeva, data platforms, and downstream systems.
- Establish architecture standards across cloud and data platforms, including environment, deployment, and DevOps patterns.
- Lead build-versus-buy-versus-partner architecture decisions and serve as the final architecture authority for design reviews and major platform decisions.
- Ensure architectures meet SOX, GxP, privacy, security, observability, auditability, and control requirements.
- Provide hands-on guidance to Product, Engineering, and Data teams to translate requirements into production-ready architectures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture or solution architecture roles.
- Deep expertise in enterprise architecture, solution design, and distributed systems.
- Strong experience with CRM and commercial platforms such as Salesforce and Veeva.
- Proven ability to design complex integrations and data architectures at scale.
- Hands-on experience with cloud and data warehouse platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Snowflake, plus modern data stacks.
- Experience designing systems incorporating AI/ML and LLM-based capabilities, including understanding of AI architectures such as MCP.
- Expertise in security, compliance, and regulated environments including SOX and GxP.
- Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale platform and integration architecture.
- Experience across Commercial, Medical, or patient services systems is required; pharma, biotech, or regulated healthcare experience is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Annual bonus and annual equity awards are available, in addition to base salary.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, generous paid time off, week-long summer and winter company shutdowns, educational assistance, student loan repayment, commuting subsidy, matching charitable donations, and 401(k).
- The role is hybrid-eligible with remote work available up to two days per week, or on-site eligible five days per week with ad hoc flexibility.